Senior Technical Animator (12-month Maternity Cover)

at  Creative Assembly

Based at our well-established studio in the heart of Sussex in the UK, you will be working as a key member of the team on our upcoming Total War titles. In this role, you will be able to make a real impact on our games. You will bring your knowledge and experience to help push the boundaries of the strategy genre by collaborating with the wider development team - striving to make our titles better than ever before.
This opportunity is for a Senior Technical Animator to provide maternity cover over a 12 month period. This will include working on multiple titles in the Total War series as part of a technical animation team.

The role involves working proactively with the animation and character art departments to provide support and implement content into the game. Technical Animation on Total War involves a broad skill set and a strong understanding of game asset pipelines.
On a day-to-day basis, you will:

Rigging / Skinning:

• Expand and improve an existing in-house rigging system.
• Build rigs using existing in-house rigging system effectively and efficiently.
• Skin characters to existing skeletons quickly and effectively.

Engine:

• Set up animation assets and characters in our proprietary game engine.
• Build and maintain animation graphs for a variety of assets.

Tools:

• Maintain and improve an existing animation tool base.
• Develop pipeline and workflow tools to improve workflows.

Additional:

• Support animation users with expert technical assistance in both Maya and game engine.
• Communicate and interpret between teams of varying disciplines (programmers, designers, artists, animators, etc)
• Collaborate with other TA’s across multiple projects.